[PATCH] perf/amd/ibs: add phy_addr_only software filter for ibs_op

From: Huang Shijie

Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 05:15:32 EST


We use the following command to track a process's memory footprint:
#perf record -e ibs_fetch// -e ibs_op// -p xxx --phys-addr -- sleep 10

In the mysql tests, I catched over 1,804,973 records for ibs_op event.
I found that over 53% records(970,554) are like this:
ibs_op//: ffffffffb6017739 0

The physical address is 0 for these records. These records are not needed
by us, and they wasted the CPU cycles.

This patch adds an ibs_op/phy_addr_only term that discards samples
without a valid physical address (dc_phy_addr_valid == 0) in the interrupt
handler. And it avoids the phys_addr=0 noise when used with --phys-data.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <huangsj@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
index e5376ad5b2ec..f258375c09bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static u32 ibs_caps;

/* attr.config2 */
#define IBS_SW_FILTER_MASK 1
+#define IBS_PHY_ADDR_ONLY_MASK 2

/* attr.config1 */
#define IBS_OP_CONFIG1_LDLAT_MASK (0xFFFULL << 0)
@@ -303,6 +304,13 @@ static bool perf_ibs_strmst_event(struct perf_ibs *perf_ibs,
(event->attr.config1 & IBS_OP_CONFIG1_STRMST_MASK);
}

+static bool perf_ibs_phy_addr_only_event(struct perf_ibs *perf_ibs,
+ struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ return perf_ibs == &perf_ibs_op &&
+ (event->attr.config2 & IBS_PHY_ADDR_ONLY_MASK);
+}
+
static int perf_ibs_init(struct perf_event *event)
{
struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
@@ -721,6 +729,7 @@ static struct attribute_group empty_caps_group = {
PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(rand_en, "config:57");
PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(cnt_ctl, "config:19");
PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(swfilt, "config2:0");
+PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(phy_addr_only, "config2:1");
PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING(l3missonly, fetch_l3missonly, "config:59");
PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING(l3missonly, op_l3missonly, "config:16");
PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING(ldlat, ibs_op_ldlat_format, "config1:0-11");
@@ -890,6 +899,7 @@ cnt_ctl_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, int i)

static struct attribute *op_attrs[] = {
&format_attr_swfilt.attr,
+ &format_attr_phy_addr_only.attr,
NULL,
};

@@ -1357,7 +1367,8 @@ static int perf_ibs_get_offset_max(struct perf_ibs *perf_ibs,
if (event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW ||
perf_ibs_is_mem_sample_type(perf_ibs, event) ||
perf_ibs_ldlat_event(perf_ibs, event) ||
- perf_ibs_fetch_lat_event(perf_ibs, event))
+ perf_ibs_fetch_lat_event(perf_ibs, event) ||
+ perf_ibs_phy_addr_only_event(perf_ibs, event))
return perf_ibs->offset_max;
else if (check_rip)
return 3;
@@ -1499,6 +1510,16 @@ static int perf_ibs_handle_irq(struct perf_ibs *perf_ibs, struct pt_regs *iregs)
}
}

+ if (perf_ibs_phy_addr_only_event(perf_ibs, event)) {
+ union ibs_op_data3 op_data3;
+
+ op_data3.val = ibs_data.regs[ibs_op_msr_idx(MSR_AMD64_IBSOPDATA3)];
+ if (!op_data3.dc_phy_addr_valid) {
+ throttle = perf_event_account_interrupt(event);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+
if (perf_ibs_fetch_lat_event(perf_ibs, event)) {
union ibs_fetch_ctl fetch_ctl;

--
2.53.0